A selection of great poems from centuries of brillant authors and poets. Whether you are new to the world of poetry and wish to savor it, or a well-versed poetry connoisseur, either way you will probably enjoy the classics of world poetry.

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Great Poems

Votes PoemAuthor

3678InvictusWilliam Ernest Henley

2050IfRudyard Kipling

1326I Loved YouAlexander Pushkin

696Love Sonnet XVIIPablo Neruda

600The Road not TakenRobert Frost

547Annabel LeeEdgar Allan Poe

510Sonnet 116William Shakespeare

392A Dream within a DreamEdgar Allan Poe

224A Book of VersesOmar Khayyam

208She Walks in BeautyLord Byron

175Give All to LoveRalph Waldo Emerson

172When you are oldWilliam Butler Yeats

166Life is but a DreamLewis Carroll

142Pleasure in the Pathless WoodsLord Byron

123The Unseen PlaymateRobert Louis Stevenson

121Admit It and Change EverythingRumi

104Because She Would Ask MeChristopher Brennan

99O Me! O Life!Walt Whitman

97Sonnet 18William Shakespeare

89Love's SecretWilliam Blake

76How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)Elizabeth Barrett Browning

76UlyssesAlfred, Lord Tennyson

73BirdsongRumi

69EchoChristina Georgina Rossetti

67He Wishes For The Cloths Of HeavenWilliam Butler Yeats

65No TearsAlexander Pushkin

63IthacaC.P. Cavafy

58SongJohn Keats

57RememberChristina Georgina Rossetti

55The Second ComingWilliam Butler Yeats

54The Gardener - 41Rabindranath Tagore

54Visible RealityRumi

52Love Not MeJohn Wilbye

51Love Sonnet XIPablo Neruda

51Youth and AgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge

47A Moment to RememberAlexander Pushkin

47Life in a LoveRobert Browning

42For Each Ecstatic InstantEmily Dickinson

40Wondrous MomentAlexander Pushkin

39Love Sonnet XLVPablo Neruda

39Music, When Soft Voices DiePercy Bysshe Shelley

39The Rose in the Deeps of his HeartWilliam Butler Yeats

37Extinguish Thou My EyesRainer Maria Rilke

37The Gardener - 40Rabindranath Tagore

36Foreign LandsRobert Louis Stevenson

36Now Sleeps the Crimson PetalAlfred, Lord Tennyson

35Ode: Intimations Of ImmortalityWilliam Wordsworth

35She Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysWilliam Wordsworth

35The Passionate PilgrimWilliam Shakespeare

35Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight?Christopher Marlowe

34Ah, My BelovedOmar Khayyam

34The Passionate Shepherd to His LoveChristopher Marlowe

33Rumors from an Aeolian HarpHenry David Thoreau

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